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Magazine Humboldt Kosmos

Can Literature Connect Worlds, Ms Fathy?

Brief Enquiries Can Literature Connect Worlds, Ms Fathy? With her students she first reads a novel about the fall of the Wall in Germany and then the history of a young woman who joins the Arab Spring

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Can Literature Connect Worlds, Ms Fathy?

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What Is It About Polygamy, Mr Junker?

Brief Enquiries What Is It About Polygamy, Mr Junker? People living as a couple usually try to be monogamous, but it often doesn’t work, says Thomas Junker. In his book “Die verborgene Natur der Liebe

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What Is It About Polygamy, Mr Junker?

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Can Social Media Enhance the Quality of Research, Ms Shema?

Brief Enquiries Can Social Media Enhance the Quality of Research, Ms Shema? The case of Fazlul Sarkar caused quite a stir. In 2014, the University of Mississippi in the United States withdrew a lucrat

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Can Social Media Enhance the Quality of Research, Ms Shema?

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Energised

Close up on Research Energised For people like him, scientific careers were not what the apartheid regime had in mind. But Wilfred Fritz managed to carve his path through racial barriers and restricti

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Energised

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Forget the grammar you learn at school

Focus on Germany Forget the grammar you learn at school WhatsApp, Twitter or Facebook – social media are not the only arena where the kind of German used makes purists tear their hair out. Take it eas

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Forget the grammar you learn at school

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The New President: Hans-Christian Pape

News The New President: Hans-Christian Pape The Humboldt Foundation has a new President: in January, the neurophysiologist and brain researcher Hans-Christian Pape took over the helm of the Foundation

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The New President: Hans-Christian Pape

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Humboldtian Honoured

News Humboldtian Honoured Joachim Frank is the 55th researcher in the Humboldt Network to be awarded a Nobel Prize. from 24. April 2018 Humboldt Kosmos – the Humboldt Foundation’s magazine. What are H

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Humboldtian Honoured

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Humboldt Professor Karen Radner

Focus Humboldt Professor Karen Radner Robots, cuneiform, bioinformatics, museums and aesthetics research – the Humboldt Professorship knows no disciplinary boundaries, only intriguing ideas and questi

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Humboldt Professor Karen Radner

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We Need Fearless Universities

Focus We Need Fearless Universities If you manage to acquire a five-million-euro professorship for your university, you get upheaval and envy into the bargain. This was a concern that was raised ten y

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We Need Fearless Universities